A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.