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

It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.