He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

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.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

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

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong