Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

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

No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.