The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.