Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

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.

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

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

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

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.