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

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

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

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

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

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

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