Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us