Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

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

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

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.