“Men are cruel, but Man is kind. ”

“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”

“The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”

“God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands. ”

“By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.”

“It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men utilitarian. Because it has no roots in sentiments, it is so dangerously easy to handle. Half a century has been enough for you to master this machine; and there are men among you, whose fondness for it exceeds their love for the living ideals which were born with the birth of your nation and nursed in your centuries. It is like a child who in the excitement of his play imagines he likes his playthings better than his mother.”