As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious.

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

Nothing has a letter effect upon children than praise.

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.