Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Religion is using everything for God.