To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.

For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings.

I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.