Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I read an indifferent book, it seems the best thing I can do, but the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read. It creates no atmosphere in which it may be perused, but one in which its teachings may be practiced. It confers on me such wealth that I lay it down with regret. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.