Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as...

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as...

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider...

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider...

I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives...

I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives...

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me...

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me...

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down...

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down...

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life......

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life......

The post of honour is a private station.

The post of honour is a private station.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to...

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to...

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of...

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of...

The woman that deliberates is lost.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes...

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes...

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he...

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he...

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to...

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to...

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very...

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very...

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider...

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider...

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love...

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love...

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy...

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy...

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he...

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he...

I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, Even over the longest distance. Same goes...

I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, Even over the longest distance. Same goes...

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings ... and lawyers.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings ... and lawyers.

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil...

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil...

We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have...

We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have...