Henry Ward Beecher: “It regards man not as a perfect thing, put into life to blossom and die, as a perfect flower doth.”

Outside of a Divine and Authoritative Revelation, men have had but one way of estimating the value of man.

And so great are the achievements of labor that everybody honors it.

Right would be a word as much out of place as among birds and beasts.

It will go on to a crisis; its settlement will be an era in the world's history, either of advance or of decline.