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.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

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

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable