Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.