little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.

disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.