I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

Any religion which will sacrifice a certain set of human beings for the enjoyment or aggrandizement or advantage of another is no religion. It is a thing which may be allowed, but it is against true religion. Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.