Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

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

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.

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

In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.

O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness