Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

Experience is the mother of custom.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.