Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

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.