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

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

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.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.