It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

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.

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.