Patience is passion tamed.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.

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

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

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