Morality is but the vestibule of religion. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts; but out of the truth of things — truth of character and vision — grows true life.

[Christ] illustrates the purport of life as he descends from his transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.