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

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.

The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.