Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.