When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been satisfied. He no longer cares for the exceptional, the monstrous, the marvelous and deformed. He looks through and beyond the gilding, the glitter and gloss, not only of things, but of conduct, of manners, theories, religions and philosophies. He sees clearer. The light no longer shines in his eyes.

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.