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.

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

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

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

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.

Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!

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.