We pardon familiar vices.

You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

It is opportunity that makes the thief.