Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

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.

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.

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

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

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