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

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.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

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.