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.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education, just as you can make a great deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than if you do not; but no cultivation in this world will ever make an apple out of a potato.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

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