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

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.