Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

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

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.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.