For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.