It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.