Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.