Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

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

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

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.