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.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

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