Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was sitting on the edge of a low range of inland cliffs, crested with drifting sand.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.