Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.

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

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

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

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.