It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.