God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

What we call results are beginnings.

Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.