Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.