Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.