Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

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.