Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.