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.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

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

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.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.