Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.
Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.
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.
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.
It is commonly said that the Internet is unique in its ability to spread bad information to large numbers of people, but this is ridiculous, given that the Internet cannot begin to compete with CNN or the New York Times for this honour.