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

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

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

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

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

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.