Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

True happiness springs from moderation.

Method will teach you to win time.

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.