The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

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

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.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.