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" Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt? "

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" Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years. "

" My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit. "

" The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity. "

" The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a stand, and it will twist itself or untwist, according as the air is moist or dry. "

" All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements. "

" The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained. "

" If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the comforts and luxuries, if not many of the necessaries of life, considerably diminished. "

" I am contracting continually a debt of gratitude which time will never see canceled. There is a treasury from which it will be repaid, but I do not dispense its stores. "

" Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first. "

" As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness. "

" Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair. "

" The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse. "

" Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever. "

" What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower. "

" They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!' "

" The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times. "

" A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever. "

" Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices. "

" I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet. "

" 'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.' "

" Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries. "

" The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character. "

" With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible. "

" By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important. "

" I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to the industrious the opportunity of earning a sum for themselves by 'over-work.' A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire. "

" I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life. "

" I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul's medicine and food! "

" Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives. "

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" That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought. "