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.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.