We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.