If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

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.

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.