Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.