A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.