Love is the river of life in this world.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.