A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.