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.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.