We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls; and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.