It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.