The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

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

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

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.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.