It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.

Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.