I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all.