When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.