Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

Ambition and poverty are powerful motivators...

Church must lead all other spheres of influence.We find people from all the mountains there.The church leaders must be able to mentor them

I refuse to suffer the torment of regret that comes from living a "what if" life.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.

Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it