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.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

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

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.