... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.