God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

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.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.