It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.

In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin.