Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

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.

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

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