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

There is no college for the conscience.

Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.