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

Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.

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

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

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.