It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.