How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Education has for its object the formation of character.