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

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

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

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

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.

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

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