To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

True art is reverent imitation of God.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.