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.

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

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart...

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

I am conscious of eternal life.