He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

True art is reverent imitation of God.

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.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.