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

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

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

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

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

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

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