It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

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

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

Pride ruined the angels.

We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.