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.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

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.

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.

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.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

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