Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.