Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Customs represent the experience of mankind.