Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.