Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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.

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.