There is no college for the conscience.

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

Greatness is its own torment.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

I am conscious of eternal life.

The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.