Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

Angels worship God with purity and love; men, with fear and trembling.

The mind paints before the brush.

Literature is the garden of wisdom.

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature.