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.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

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

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

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

The law of heaven is love.