Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

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

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

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

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.