Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

One must be something, in order to do something.