Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chain...
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better.
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a...
Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains...
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
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.