The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.