An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so.

1.Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2.Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3.Never spend your money before you have it. 4.Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5.Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6.We never repent of having eaten too little. 7.Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8.How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9.Take things always by their smooth handle. 10.When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.