There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.