All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life.

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.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

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

Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.

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

Humanity is the sin of God