He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

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

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

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.