Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.