Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

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.

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.

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

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.