Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

Love is the piety of the affections.

Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.

The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.