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.
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.
There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.
Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.