I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.