Sin is free, or you cannot make sin out of it..

A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding..

Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able to transmit God's own thought….

A thinker is a person..

Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can….

God is making commerce His missionary..

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it..

We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interes….

Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for the gratification of a supreme….

The sense of duty pursues us ever..

It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude..

What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other, held and swung to and fro by the f….

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compoun….

There is a certain physiognomy in manners..

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best..

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties..

So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re always busy….

Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very well; that is the book you want to study while y….

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes..

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown..

A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You can….