“The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.”

“The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.”

“Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.”

“It is strange how you shall hate a man, and yet pity him from the depths.”

“It is simple. Men lose their birthrights for a mess of pottage only if they stop using the gifts given them by God for their betterment. By prayer. That is the first and greatest gift. use the gift of prayer. Ask for strength of mind, and a clear vision. Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well. By prayer and good thought you will conquer all enemies....Behold, the night is coming. Prepare, for the time is at hand.”

“The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.”

“...[I]t is pain to think of innocence in ruin.”

“Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.”

“Let all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man's life or two. Life without would be a hell, indeed.”

“I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.”

“The beauty and music...It is a call...And some are not strong.”

“But I was born in the image of God, a man, a creator, with power of life and death, a father, blessed with the gift of the seed of Adam, a sower of seed, to bring forth generations of new life.This I was, and envying a kettle.”