We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

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

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.