There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.