The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.