Remorse is the pain of sin.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.