Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

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.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

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

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

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