Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

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

Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!