Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.