Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.

As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.