It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.