The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

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

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.

There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.