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

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.