It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?