This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

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.