Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.