The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

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

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.