Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.

The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.