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We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread in widening circles, through a nation or humanity. Through my vice I intensify the taint of vice throughout the universe. Through my misery I make multitudes sad. On the other hand, every development of my virtue makes me an ampler blessing to my race. Every new truth that I gain makes me a brighter light to humanity.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.