If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

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

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.