Every child should be taught to pay all his debts, and to fulfil all his contracts, exactly in manner, completely in value, punctually at the time. Everything he has borrowed, he should be obliged to return uninjured at the time specified, and everything belonging to others which he has lost, he should be required to replace.
—John Sullivan Dwight
Topics: Punctuality
Rest is not quitting the busy career; rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.
—John Sullivan Dwight
Topics: Rest
The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity.
—John Sullivan Dwight
Topics: Bible
Honor is not a matter of any man’s calling merely, but rather of his own actions in it.
—John Sullivan Dwight
Topics: Honor
Let all children remember, if ever they are weary of laboring for their parents, that Christ labored for his; if impatient of their commands, that Christ cheerfully obeyed; if reluctant to provide for their parents, that Christ forgot himself and provided for his mother amid the agonies of the crucifixion. The affectionate language of this divine example to every child is, “Go thou and do likewise.”
—John Sullivan Dwight
Topics: Children
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