A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

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

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.