No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.

In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.

I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.

What child has ever known the country and has not twined hundreds of fragrant wreaths with the yellow shining cowslip and the more frail and delicate violet - mingling here and there green leaves culled from the odorous eglantine, or, as we more commonly call it, sweetbriar.