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

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.

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 must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

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

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.