Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

Humanity is the sin of God

The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.