Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.

Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.