Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

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

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.