Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.