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.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.