Wealth which breeds idleness ... is only a sort of human oyster-bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worm's banquet.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on cold iron.

The Borough Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and the last we cannot break it.

Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that whic

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience and care.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

Benevolence is a world of itself a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.