That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

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

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

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.