Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

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.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

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

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

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.