Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life—least of all when we are eating.

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.