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

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.