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

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.

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

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

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!

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.