It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.