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

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

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

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.

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

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

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.