There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Religion is using everything for God.

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.