There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.