True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.