Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

The eye is inlet to the soul.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

Error is always more busy than truth.