SELECTED SAYINGS 



former, the men who organize liberty and found republics, who plan 

 moral revolutions and lead the forces, have positive convictions. 

 They believe in mankind, in the great future, in the ultimate triumph 

 of principles, in the immortality of spirit, in the enduring character 

 of God. It does not require any great strength of intellect to de- 

 stroy or to doubt." 



"The Supreme Ruler seems to place such stress upon enduring 

 purpose that he has subjected all men to a test, and I have some- 

 times thought that the great ordeal was that of poverty. Cold and 

 hunger are terrible reagents. They bring out the gold from character 

 or they waste and destroy it. Such is the crucible into which men 

 are thrown when the people have need of great leaders, statesmen, 

 scholars or reformers. '' 



"A nation that is able to endure all things can never despair. 

 When Hannibal was encamped about Rome, the Romans appraised 

 the land occupied by his army and sold it for building lots." 



"Purity is the sublimity of the soul; it is the fortress upon the 

 summits of human nature, into which we are led by taking hold of 

 the hand of God; or hold it by our eternal vigil." 



"The uncommon thing, the thing that startles us as unexpected 

 and out of place is honesty. Our apparel is a fraud, from shoe to 

 hat, paste, paper, starch and shoddy are freely used to give the 

 appearance of a costly vesture at the expense of substantial fabric 

 and durability. Clever imitation of grand carpetings cover the 

 floors of our homes ; cheap copies of the masterpieces of great artists 

 hang upon our walls, alum is mysteriously transformed into flour, 

 sulphuric acid into syrup, stone into sugar, lard into butter and 

 glucose into honey." 



"This artificial man, clothed in deception and fed on fraud, 

 enters into society to deceive his employer, to gamble in options, to 

 water the stock of banks and railroads, to defile the ballot box and 

 pollute the fountains of justice. The most imperative demand to-day 

 in all the lines of life is for honest men. We need honest laborers to 

 faithfully perform the duties assigned them in the diversified in- 

 dustries of this great nation. We need honest mechanics to con- 

 struct our houses, weave our fabrics and manufacture the products 

 upon which the commercial prosperity of our people depends. Such 

 is the urgent demand for honesty that men are everywhere searching 



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