Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.