Prosperity often presages adversity.
Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.
A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.
Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.
There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.
Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
The eye is inlet to the soul.
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.
I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.
It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.
Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
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