No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, and the purse full.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

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.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

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