Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.

Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

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

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.

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