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

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.