What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.- Tryon Edwards
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
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.
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
