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

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

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.