Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislative as an agent in human advancement has been much over-estimated. No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident or the drunken sober.

With will one can do anything.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.