Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.