Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.