In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

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

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.