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.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.