They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

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