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.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.