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.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.

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.

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

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

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