The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.