The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.

What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!