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

Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

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

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

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