One example is worth a thousand arguments.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

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 American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

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.