CHARLES SIMMONS

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.