Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.