All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

Mirth is God's medicine.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.