Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.