What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

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

First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are alienable only by the possessor thereof; that they are equal in men; that government is to organize these natural, unalienable and equal rights into institutions designed for the good of the governed, and therefore government is to be of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people. Here government is development, not exploitation.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

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never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.