There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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