Love can make us fiends as well as angels.

Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.