Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.