Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.

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

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.