Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

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

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.