Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

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

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.