The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.

To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

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

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.