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

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

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.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

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.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.