There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.

Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.