Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

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

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.