The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road