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

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For awhile till it sleeps In its own little Lake. And thence at departing, Awakening and starting, It runs through the reeds And away it proceeds, Through meadow and glade, In sun and in shade, And through the wood-shelter, Among crags in its flurry, Helter-skelter, Hurry-scurry.

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

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