Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

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

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

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

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.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.