It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.