There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.