“There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.”

“Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be His words, but Himself. It was His Person around which His teaching centered; not His teaching around which He would be remembered. 'Greater love than this no man hath' - that was the secret of His magnetism.”

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

“Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle.”

“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”

“Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.”