Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.

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.

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

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.

A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor.

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

O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.