Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

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

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.