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

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

While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should awaken and strengthen the control of the conscience.

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

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!

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.