1. “Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.”
2. “Every parting is a form of death, as every union is a type of heaven.”
3. “To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is better.”
4. “Some of the best lessons we ever learn, we learn from our mistakes and failures The error of the past is the success and wisdom of the future.”
5. “Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.”
6. “If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. One who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.”
7. “Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.”
8. “High aims form high characters and great objects bring out great minds.”
9. “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.”
10. “We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.”
11. “Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument, not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.”
12. “We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.”
13. “To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.”
14. “What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.”
15. “He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.”
