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

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

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

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.