There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen.

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?