Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.
True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.