Great Throughts Treasury

"That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey."

"The body travels more easily than the mind, and until we have limbered up our imagination we continue to think as though we had stayed home. We have not really budged a step until we take up residence in someone else's point of view."

"When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer."

"In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude."

"Let reason be opposed to reason, and argument to argument, and every good government will be safe."

"It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite different from that which we breathe in the world, and in the world's literature."