Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.