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?

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.