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.

[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

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

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

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

Remorse is the pain of sin.

I am conscious of eternal life.