Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.