Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

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.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

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.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

Now comes the mystery.