Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.
Integrity is the first step to true greatness.
A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.
Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.
Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.
When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.
A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.
Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.
When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.
The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
He who feasts every day, feasts no day.
It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.
Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.
Dare not usurp thy maker’s place by giving way to wrath – wrath that goes forth in vengeance; “vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.”