Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.