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

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.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

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.

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