Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.