If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.

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