Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

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.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.