Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

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

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

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

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.