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

The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.