You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

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.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.