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

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

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.

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

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.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.