Mystery and innocence are not akin.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

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

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.