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.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

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

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.