Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

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

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 books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.

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

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

Disappointment is often the salt of life.