In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.