Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.