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

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.

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.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

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