Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.