A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.