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

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

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

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

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

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