The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.