Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

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

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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

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.