In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

Love is the world's river of life

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Good-humor makes all things tolerable

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.