O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.