What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.