“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”

“All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.”

“Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.”

“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.”