He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.