The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.