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 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.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

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

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.