Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.