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

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

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.

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.