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.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart...

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.