No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Storms purify the atmosphere.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.