At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.