Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.