Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.

The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value thereof" - but rather delegated that authority, sometimes by charter and sometimes by default, to the banking system. This despite the provision in the Constitution that charged Congress with the power to 'coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standards of weight and Measures.'