It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.

In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.

The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.