Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

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.

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

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

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

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.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.