Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived.

Misgive that you may not mistake.