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.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

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

If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.

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.

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.

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