Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them.