Hell is truth seen too late - duty neglected in its season.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven.

Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Falther,' acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives, that we need to make a large discount from their statements, before we can come at their real meaning.

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.