Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

Love is the river of life in this world.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.