One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.