Do Anything Rather Than Give

Another Powerful Principle Of Our Nature, Which Is The Spring Of War, Is The Passion For Superiority, For Triumph, For Power. The Human Mind Is Aspiring, Impatient Of Inferiority, And Eager For Preeminence And Control.

All Noble Enthusiasms Pass Through A Feverish Stage, And Grow Wiser And More Serene

It Is Far More Important To Me To Preserve An Unblemished Conscience Than To Compass Any Object However Great.

War Will Never Yield But To The Principles Of Universal Justice And Love, And These Have No Sure Root But In The Religion Of Jesus Christ.

Poetry Reveals To Us The Loveliness Of Nature, Brings Back The Freshness Of Youthful Feelings, Reviews The Relish Of Simple Pleasures, Keeps Unquenched The Enthusiasm Which Warmed The Springtime Of Our Being, Refines Youthful Love, Strengthens Our Interest In Human Mature, By Vivid Delineations Of Its Tenderest And Softest Feelings, And Through The Brightness Of Its Prophetic Visions, Helps Faith To Lay Hold On The Future Life.