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.

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

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.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.