Error is always more busy than truth.

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

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

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.