Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

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

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.