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.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

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

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.