The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart...

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.

I am conscious of eternal life.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.