It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.