Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!

The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.