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.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

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.

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

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

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.