Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

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.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

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.

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.