Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

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

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .