Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.