Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

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.

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

Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

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

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.