Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.