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

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

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

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.