The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.