Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.