Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.