The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.