That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

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

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.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.