Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

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.

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

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.

Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come; but of what infinite concern is the consideration whither it is going. Surely such consideration demands the study of a life.

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

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