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

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

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.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.