The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this Word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

Time makes more converts than reason.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.