The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.