There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles--that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith--be wanting. It may be soured by misfortune, it may be corrupted by wealth, it may be blighted by neediness, it may lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that support.

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.