Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.