What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies