Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

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.

Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.