Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

We rise by lifting others.

The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are not the limitations of his sympathies. Caring nothing for race, or color, he loves those who speak other languages and worship other gods. Between him and those who suffer, there is no impassable gulf. He salutes the world, and extends the hand of friendship to the human race. He does not bow before a provincial and patriotic god -- one who protects his tribe or nation, and abhors the rest of mankind.