Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.