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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

In the diligence of his idleness.

Mystery and innocence are not akin.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

God's glowing covenant.

A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.

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.