No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.

We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the surface, nor leaped as many above it. We know not where we are. Beside, we are sound asleep nearly half our time.

Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already.

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.