Prosperity often presages adversity.
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Experience is retrospect knowledge.
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.
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.
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.
There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
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.
Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
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.
There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals.
Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
The eye is inlet to the soul.
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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