Pastoral Resources

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

I will never retire.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.