Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

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

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.