The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.