It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

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

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.

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

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.

All men desire to be immortal.