Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.