It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over..

Mystery and innocence are not akin..

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible..

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example..

There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice pre….

Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence..

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation..

As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor..

Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side..

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature..

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect..

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice..

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful..

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character..

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless..

Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment..

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity..

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation..

It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store..

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object..

A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author..