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

Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

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.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.