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.

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

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

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.