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 waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
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.
