The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.