To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.