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.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart...

A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

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

There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.