 At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. |
| Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. |
| Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. |
| Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. |
| The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. |
| A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. |
| The essence of justice is mercy. |
| The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. |
| Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. |
| Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical. |
| Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. |
| Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. |
| This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. |
| Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. |
| An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven. |
| Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. |
| The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. |
| Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. |
| Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. |
| Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. |
