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.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

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

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

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

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.