A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

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

The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.

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

In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.