Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself.