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 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.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

The most useful is the greatest.