It is better to die than to tell a lie

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.