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

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

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

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

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

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.