Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

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.

Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.

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