As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of Thought and Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture.

Where there is no vision a people perish.

He is a good man who can receive a gift well.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

People only see what they are prepared to see.