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.

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

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.

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

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.