In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.