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

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin