Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. . . .

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.