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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth, inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Facts are God's arguments, we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth, inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.