The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

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

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

There is no college for the conscience.