Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

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