All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

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 murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

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

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.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.