Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

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.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.