True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

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.

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

He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

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