Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
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.
