I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.