Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

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.

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.