Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

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