» When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
» The dog is the god of frolic.
» Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
» We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
» The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
» All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
» The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
» If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
» Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
» The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.