Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

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

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

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

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

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.