It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.