In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Convert life into truth.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.