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

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

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.

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

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

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.

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.