No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

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!

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.

There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals.

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

There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.