Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

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

When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.

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