There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.