That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men, not to serve others, but themselves; and they try all things only to hold fast that which is bad.

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.