There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

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.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

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

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

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