The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or the contents of anonymous letters; I take the testimony of those who knew and loved him, of those to whom he opened his heart and to whom he spoke in the freedom of perfect confidence.