If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

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

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

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