No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Experience is retrospect knowledge.
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!