So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

The tree is but a huge boquet.

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.