Thou shalt not rise by grieving over the irremediable past, but by remedying the present.

There’s a grace of wise forgetfulness,
The while we forward reach and onward press,
Let the dead past be buried.

Faith ought ever to be a sanguine, cheerful thing;  and perhaps in practical life we could not give a better account of faith than by saying, that it is, amidst much failure, having the heart to try again. 

Be penitent, and prayerful, but discourage looking back;  we cannot bring the past again;  reject it, and forget it.

Have patience with yourself is a direction often recurring in his writings, and a most important one it is, – because patience with ourselves is essential if we would have patience with others.

Conduct is the mouth-piece of character.   What a man is declares itself through what he does…..

A man of integrity, sincerity, and good-nature can never be concealed, for his character is wrought into his countenance.

Why will you keep caring for what the world says?   Try, oh!  try to be no longer a slave to it.   You can have little idea of the comfort of freedom from it – it is bliss! 

…remember that character means exactly what we are, while reputation is only what other people think we are.