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

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

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

To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.