An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.