Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

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

Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.

"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."

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.