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.

Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.

Humanity is the sin of God

Science is the natural ally of religion.

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

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

Politics is the science of urgencies.