The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?

Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.

Never disregard what your enemies say. They may be severe, they may be prejudiced, they may be determined to see only in one direction, but still in that direction see clearly. They do not speak all the truth, but they generally speak the truth from one point of view; so far as that goes, attend to them.

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.