He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

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

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

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.

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.