Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.