Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.