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

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.