It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

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

A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.

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

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.