A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

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

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been satisfied. He no longer cares for the exceptional, the monstrous, the marvelous and deformed. He looks through and beyond the gilding, the glitter and gloss, not only of things, but of conduct, of manners, theories, religions and philosophies. He sees clearer. The light no longer shines in his eyes.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.