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.

The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

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.