The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.