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.

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

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.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart...

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

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