Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

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

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.