When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.