There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.