How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.
Experience is retrospect knowledge.
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.
How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.
Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.
Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.