The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

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.