Humanity is the sin of God

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.

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

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart...

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.