It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

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.

Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.

The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.