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.

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

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.