High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

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.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

True art is reverent imitation of God.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.