The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.

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

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.