Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.

Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.