Self-respect is the best of all.

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.

With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.

There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.