Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

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.

Greatness is its own torment.

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Remorse is the pain of sin.