Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
Wisdom
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The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence.
Wisdom
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head, or a very short creed.
Wisdom
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places—at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.
Wisdom
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Life
Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.
Life
A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.
Wisdom
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such astonishment as a proud man.
Success
The two most precious things this side the grave are our reputation and our life.
Life
Time,—that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
Wisdom