The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.