The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

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.

Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.

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

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

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

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.