False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.