God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.