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

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

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 murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

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.