The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. - John Lancaster Spalding

If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.

If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.