Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.
If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
There is nothing so costly as ignorance.
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.