Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.