The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.