God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.