Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.