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.

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

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.