To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.