A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

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

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.