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

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

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

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.