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 |
Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny |
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power. |
To live happily with other people, one should ask of them only what they can give. |
To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin |
To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin |
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own |
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better |
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. |
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. |
We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things |
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. |
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. |
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost. |