The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.