Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken. - Horace Mann

Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on cold iron.

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.