It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.

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

The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.