The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.

Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.

Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.

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

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.