All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.