Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.