I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.