A house without books is like a room without windows.

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

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.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

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

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.