No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

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.

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.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.