We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. With all his deficiencies, it must be admitted that he has grown continually.

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.