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.

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

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

All men desire to be immortal.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.