A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

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.