Nature is God's Old Testament.
What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.
There is no college for the conscience.
A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.
For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.
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.