The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.