There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.