Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

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.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

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