How much finer things are in composition than alone.

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.