There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

The poem is a confession of faith.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.