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.

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

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.

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

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect; and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.