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

Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

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

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.