The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.