The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

Love is the world's river of life

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.