Purity in person and in morals is true godliness..

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven..

Experience is retrospect knowledge..

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work..

There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast..

A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future..

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth..

With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with ma….

Self-respect is the best of all..

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains..

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone..

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt..

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills tha….

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life..

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction..

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice..

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never..

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!.

True repentance also involves reform..

True repentance always involves reform..

As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, tow….