Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

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.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.