Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

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

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.

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.