But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.