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.

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

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

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

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.