Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Society is built upon trust.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.