And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.