Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

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

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

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

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.