It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

How we shall earn our bread is a grave question; yet it is a sweet and inviting question. Let us not shirk it, as is usually done.It is the most important and practical question which is put to man. Let us not answer it hastily. Let us not be content to get our bread in some gross, careless, and hasty manner. Some men go a-hunting, some a-fishing, some a-gaming, some to war; but none have so pleasant a time as they who in earnest seek to earn their bread.

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.