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Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
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.
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
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... →
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.
He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years... →
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
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... →
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
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