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.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

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

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.