That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.