Where Duty Is Plain Delay Is Both

To Possess Money Is Very Well; It May Be A Valuable Servant; To Be Possessed By It Is To Be Possessed By The Devil, And One Of The Meanest And Worst Kind Of Devils.

My Books Are My Tools, And The Greater Their Variety And Perfection The Greater The Help To My Literary Work.

Anxiety Is The Rust Of Life, Destroying Its Brightness And Weakening Its Power. A Childlike And Abiding Trust In Providence Is Its Best Preventive And Remedy.

What We Gave, We Have; What We Spent, We Had; What We Left, We Lost.

Ridicule May Be The Evidence Of With Or Bitterness And May Gratify A Little Mind, Or An Ungenerous Temper, But It Is No Test Of Reason Or Truth.