Good manners are a part of good morals.

An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.

Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. It is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which, when raised, could never be kept within the magic circle.

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

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.