Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.

The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.