Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?