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

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

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.

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

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

Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.