Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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.

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.