In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

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.

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.