Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Hatred is self-punishment.
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
