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.

I look through the grave into heaven.

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

Remorse is the pain of sin.

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

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor