Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

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.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.