If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

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.

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law