Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.