For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life.

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.