It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.

Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.