Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.

There is a transcendent power in example.

One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.