Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.