Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

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.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

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

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.