Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.