The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky.