Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

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

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.