The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.

Home is the seminary of all other institutions.

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.