The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. It is a process.
Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.
Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.