Laws die, books never.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.