Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.