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

I look through the grave into heaven.

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

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

Politics is the science of urgencies.