The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.