the excess of all good things is mischievous.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

The great difficulty in education is that we give rules instead of inspiring sentiments. ... it is not possible to make rules enough to apply to all manner of cases; and if it were possible, a child would soon forget them. But if you inspire him with right feelings, they will govern his actions.

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.