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

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.