Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

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