Innocence is always unsuspicious.
Slander is the solace of malignity.
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
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.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.