The home is the chief school of human virtues.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.

Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.