I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Avoid witicisms at the expense of others.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.