To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Eat to live, not live to eat.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.