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.

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

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

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.

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

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