If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.