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.

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

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

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

Intellect is stronger than cannon.

Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.