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

The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable

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

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.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.