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

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.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

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

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.