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Life
…one must never be discouraged by defeats in one’s youth, but continue to learn throughout one’s whole life.
There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed…. That is what makes life so interesting.
The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.
From the practice of the purest virtue, you may be assured you will derive the most sublime comforts in every moment of life, and in the moment of death.
God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?
Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice?
My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
[N]ever in my life did I own a slave.
I have, through my whole life, held the practice of slavery in . . . abhorrence.
You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are.
