Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.