When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
