Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

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.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

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

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.