If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.

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

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William; it is the Gospel according to Mary; it is the Gospel according to Henry and James; it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.