Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.