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

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.

Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.

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

Self-respect is the best of all.

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

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