I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?