Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, and the purse full.

Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Dare not usurp thy maker's place by giving way to wrath - wrath that goes forth in vengeance; "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.