The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.

It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.

Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to see the way to go; When darkness falls ask God the path to show. Think for thyself and reason out thy plan; God has His work and thou hast thine. Exert thy will and use for self-control; God gave thee jurisdiction of thy soul. All thine immortal powers bring into play; Think, act, strive, reason, and look up and pray.

The two kinds of people on earth are the people who lift and the people who lean.

Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, "May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame - Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?"

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.