No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

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.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

The end of man is action.

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

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.