True art is reverent imitation of God.

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

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.

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

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.