Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.