Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

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.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

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.

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.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.