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

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

True art is reverent imitation of God.

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.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin