The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

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.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

True art is reverent imitation of God.

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.