Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart...

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

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

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

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