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

What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.

There is no college for the conscience.