Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

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

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.