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

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.

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.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.

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