Politics is the science of urgencies. |
Remorse is the pain of sin |
Remorse is the pain of sin |
Remorse is the pain of sin |
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. |
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. |
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. |
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable |
There is what I call the American idea. . . . This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy,--that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people. For shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom. |
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold |
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart |
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. |