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

Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

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 must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

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