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.

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.

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.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.