There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.