Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

There can be no Christianity where there is no charity

Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.