There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

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

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.