The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.