No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

Some people are proud of their humility.

A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.

Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.