Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

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.

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

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.