No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.