Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

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