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.

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

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.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.