Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!