Be firm, but be not too hasty to decide; weigh well before you act, but, having weighed, act promptly, and abide the result. This is the test of judgment.
Wit loses its respect with the good when seen in company with malice; and to smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Success never did, never will come to that young man who knows everything—in his own opinion.
In love, as in everything else, truth is the strongest of all things, and frankness is but another name for truth.
Frequent disappointment teaches us to mistrust our own inclination, and shrink even from vows our hearts may prompt.
For children there is no leave-taking, for they acknowledge no past, only the present, that to them is full of the future.
To love, in order to be loved in return, is man, but to love for the pure sake of loving, is almost the characteristic of an angel.
Fond as a man is of sight-seeing, life is the great show for every man—the show always wonderful and new to the thoughtful.
The sweetest book in all the world, if properly read, is the Bible.
Its leaves are as fragrant as a bed of violets in full bloom.
Pity gilds mortality with rays of immortal light, and through faith enables its possessor to triumph over sin, sorrow, tribulation and death.