To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

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.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.