Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.