Politics is the science of urgencies.

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

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

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.

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.