Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions. - Tryon Edwards

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

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second ; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny. – As Lessing says, 'Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.'

He is one of the noblest conquerors who carries on a successful warfare against his own appetites and passions, and has them under wise and full control.