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

Intellect is stronger than cannon.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

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

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

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.

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.