Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

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.

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

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

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

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

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.