To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, “I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.