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.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

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

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.

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.