The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

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.

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.