Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Thirty millions, mostly fools.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.