One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.

In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.