Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.

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