A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.