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

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

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

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

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.