God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living.

Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.

Surely I have contemplated the things of God.

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

The Constitution of our country [was] formed by the Fathers of liberty... Exalt the standard of Democracy! Down with that of priestcraft, and let all the people say Amen! that the blood of our fathers may not cry from the ground against us. Sacred is the memory of that blood which bought for us our liberty.

Never give up an old tried friend, who has waded through all manner of toil, for your sake, and throw him away because fools may tell you he has some faults.

When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.