It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.