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

I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women keep house so badly or with such wastefulness as chancellors of the exchequer keep the state.

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

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

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.

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.