No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

God is the explanation of all things.

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.