The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.

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

Humanity is the sin of God

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.

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.