Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

A babe is a mother's anchor.

True obedience is true freedom.

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.