Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

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.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.