There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

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

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

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.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.