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 be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

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.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

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

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.