We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.