Storms purify the atmosphere.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

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.

There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.