The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

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.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.