Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

The tree is but a huge boquet.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.