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.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

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.

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

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.