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.

Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

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

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

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Science is the natural ally of religion.