Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

I am conscious of eternal life.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

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.

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

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.