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.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

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

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

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.