Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

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

Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets.

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.

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

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

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.