Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers..

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws..

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becomin….

When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all….

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool..

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep..

True greatness consists in being great in little things..

He who feasts every day, feasts no day..

Dare not usurp thy maker's place by giving way to wrath - wrath that goes forth in vengeance; "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.".

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence..

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced..

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'..

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value..

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions..

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide..

A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called ….

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands..

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next..

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock..

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in a….