A man is what he thinks about all day long.

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

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

Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.